Who's all going from IIS to Astrofest

[glenc (Glen)]

I stayed 4 nights, Wednesday night was cloudy, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights were clear. Friday morning was cold, -0.9C with a breeze.
I looked through three 16" scopes (Ron's, Kevin's and a new 16" Meade Lightbridge), also Len's 18", Norman's 25" and Peter's 30" scope. Saw the pillars of creation in M16 with AstroJunks 20" via a monitor. We saw NGC 6888 the Cresent Nebula through Peter's 30", that was a highlight for me. It looked like this in B&W: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030415.html. We also followed the coast of the North America nebula with the 30".

I slept in a cubicle on a double decker bed, a mixed dorm with up to 28 in it, many snoring! (a guy from Scotland was one of them!) Luckily earplugs were provided. Ian and Sue cooked great meals and I met lots of iceinspace people and others. I also met two young guys David and Darren from near where I live. The place was crowded, 142 people slept there on Saturday night. Five vendors sold things on Friday and Saturday morning. The talk on Friday was by Donna Burton about her asteroid searches and on Saturday Fred Watson talked about dark matter, dark energy and dark skies. Unfortunately the country and dams are very dry, the Brisbane river is dry at Duckadang and the bore ran dry on Saturday afternoon. There were two dead cows about 1km up the road.

[CoombellKid]

I have very fond memories spending 2-3 nights on Peter's 30"er at 2005
QLD Astrofest. A very nice telescope... Is he still trying to sell it?

regards,CS

[AstroJunk (Jonathan)]

No - Thankfully for us all SDM001 will remain in Peter's capable hands!

[firstlight (Tony)]

Might need to point out Darren that the June issue was autographed by the great man himself, Sir Patrick Moore. Congratulations.

Tony

Originally Posted by dhumpie

It was great...and I won something at the raffle this year which was nice...two issues of BBC's the sky at night

Darren

Might need to point out Darren that the June issue was autographed by the great man himself, Sir Patrick Moore . Congratulations.

Tony

[mickal555]

Wooo!

I had an awesome time

Might write up something more full in a bit.

[mickal555]

Originally Posted by firstlight

Might need to point out Darren that the June issue was autographed by the great man himself, Sir Patrick Moore. Congratulations.

Tony
Might need to point out Darren that the June issue was autographed by the great man himself, Sir Patrick Moore . Congratulations.

Tony

Might need to point out that that was pointed out twice.

[IanL]

Hi Glenc

Snoring, I never heard any at all

Ian

[glenc (Glen)]

Thanks Ian, I was waiting for your reply.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Yeah, the snoring. I had the female winner and overall champion snorer sleeping 600mm above my head. Needless to say, I slept in the car saturday night.

[dhumpie]

Yup I have Sir Patrick Moore's signature

Darren